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Improving access to Government through better use of the Web
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By: José Manuel Alonso
It’s no secret that just as the web has revolutionized business, the media, and many other parts of our lives, it is also revolutionizing how governments and citizens interact, and how government provide services. But how to do it well is still something of a black art. This post looks at the opportunities the Web provides governments, the challenges, and the role of the W3C in helping to develop underlying, interoperable technologies with which to build these services.
- egov
Syntax for ARIA: Cost-benefit analysis
The ARIA spec. defines roles, states and properties to manage the interface between rich web documents and assistive technologies. The primary expression of roles, states and properties in markup languages is via attributes. ARIA has to specify how its vocabulary of attributes and values can be integrated into both existing and future languages. This analysis assesses alternative approaches to ARIA syntax.
utf-8 Growth On The Web
utf-8 is taking over traditional encodings on the Web.
- html
- html5
- i18n
- implementation
- unicode
- validator
Vertical Layouts for Canvas Text (CJK)
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By: Karl Dubost
How to handle vertical layouts (for example CJK) with Canvas Text API. I give some references to have a snapshot of the constraints and issues.
- api
- cjk
- html
- html5
- i18n
- implementation
- working-group
How to add RDF information to a page using RDFa?
The Semantic Web Activity home page has a number of information that might be of interest for the Semantic Web (eg, for data integration). These should be made these available in RDF, too. How to do that without duplicating information? RDFa is your friend…
- rdf
- rdfa
Web Typography - Your wish list
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By: Karl Dubost
Give your feedback and tell about your wishes list on Web Typography.
- css
- specification
- typography
- working-group
W3C, Process and Perception
W3C Process is often misunderstood. Arnaud Le Hors shared his impressions about it.
- process
- quality
- w3c
WCAG 2.0 takes a giant leap forward — Now it's your turn
WCAG 2.0 is going, boldly, where it's never gone before: Today WCAG 2.0 is at 'W3C Candidate Recommendation'! Can you feel the Web accessibility world shake? Candidate Recommendation means that we think the technical content is stable and we want developers and designers to start using WCAG 2.0, to test it out in every-day situations....
font is dead, vive le style
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By: Karl Dubost
font is gone, style="" is made global (in HTML 5).
- authoring
- css
- html
- html5
alt attributes authoring practices
There has been a lot of discussions around alt attributes on HTML WG mailing list. It's always difficult to move forward in such discussions because it seems to be easy when in fact it is rather complicated.
- authoring
- auto
- html
- wai
